Kenyan Police and Military Abuses against Ethnic Somalis

This report provides detailed documentation of human rights abuses by the Kenya Defence Forces and the Kenyan police in apparent response to a series of grenade and improvised explosive device [IED] attacks that targeted both the security forces and civilians in North Eastern province. Rather than conducting investigations to identify and apprehend the perpetrators, both the police and army responded with violent reprisals against Kenyan citizens and Somali refugees. http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/kenya0512webwcover.pdf

 

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Mining and development: How to get the balance right?

Mining is ubiquitous in the developing world, boosting foreign direct investment and creating jobs, but bringing with it a series of social and environmental problems that have often torn communities apart and fermented social unrest. The connection between mining and international development is an important one, but the antagonism between the two sides of the debate has allowed for certain sectors to be neglected. One such sector is that of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM).

The Peruvian government’s recent incorporation of informal mining into the criminal code, which created sentencing guidelines of up to 10 years’ imprisonment for those involved in the activity, caused massive protests in the Madre de Dios region of the country. These uprisings consisted of some 10,000 artisanal gold miners, caused three deaths and 30 injuries, and brought the importance of ASGM into the public spotlight, both in Peru and abroad. The social unrest in Peru illustrates the dangers of sweeping regulations that criminalise large sectors of the informal economy without taking specific needs and complexities into consideration.
http://www.whydev.org/mining-and-development-how-to-get-the-balance-right/

 

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Quantitative indicators for the World Programme of Action for Youth

The expert group meeting “Quantitative indicators for the World Programme of Action for Youth” was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 12 to 13 December 2011, organized by the Division for Social Policy and Development of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DSPD/DESA) of the United Nations Secretariat, in collaboration with the United Nations Statistics Division and the United Nations Population Division of DESA.

Several experts expressed their desire for an indicator that would capture youth participation in vocational education or other training outside of formal education, in recognition of the importance that such non-formal educational experiences have for youth opportunities in the workplace. Concerns were raised about the quality of existing data on youth literacy. Mr. Voffal replied that improvements to these data would soon be realized as a result of the on-going work of UNESCO’s Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP), initial results of which would be available in 2012.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/statcom/doc12/RD-EGM-YouthIndicators.pdf

 

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The Data Journalism Handbook to help our Uganda journalists

Data journalism can help a journalist tell a complex story through engaging infographics. Or it can help explain how a story relates to an individual, as the BBC and the Financial Times now routinely do with their budget interactives (where you can find out how the budget affects you, rather than ‘Joe Public’). And it can open up the news gathering process itself, as The Guardian do so successfully in sharing data, context, and questions with their Datablog. Data can be the source of data journalism, or it can be the tool with which the story is told - or it can be both. Like any source, it should be treated with scepticism; and like any tool, we should be conscious of how it can shape and restrict the stories that are created with it.

Data-driven journalism is the future. Journalists need to be data-savvy. It used to be that you would get stories by chatting to people in bars, and it still might be that you’ll do it that way some times. But now it’s also going to be about poring over data and equipping yourself with the tools to analyze it and picking out what’s interesting. And keeping it in perspective, helping people out by really seeing where it all fits together, and what’s going on in the country.
http://datajournalismhandbook.org/1.0/en/

 

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Civil Society, International Justice and the Search for Accountability in Africa

Africa has become a testing ground for international justice and international criminal justice in particular. In the last decade and a half, the continent has been the site of numerous efforts to promote criminal accountability, from ad hoc courts, to efforts to bring the former Chadian leader Hissène Habré to justice on behalf of the peace and security architecture of the African Union, to International Criminal Court investigations in seven country situations.

This preponderance of international justice activity is not surprising given the prolific nature of conflict in Africa over the past two decades. However, serious questions about the impact and efficacy of international justice endeavours are now being asked. How have international justice activities affected the social, political and economic contexts on the ground? Who has a voice in determining what kind of justice is being delivered and for whom?
http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/documents/IRRI_JustJustice_CivilSocietyInternationalJusticeandtheSearchforAccountability.pdf

USAID's Global Health Strategic Framework 2012 - 2016

This document sets out a strategic framework for the U.S.Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) global health sector for FY 2012–2016. It incorporates the principles of the Global Health Initiative (GHI), which form the foundation of our work, is set within USAID’s core development mission and priorities, and promotes an inclusive and integrated approach to global health across the U.S. Government for a more effective and efficient approach to sustainable global health outcomes. This Strategic Framework discusses USAID’s major health priorities for FY 2012–FY 2016: saving mothers and children, fostering an AIDS-free generation, combating infectious diseases, increasing the availability and use of voluntary family planning, and strengthening health systems. It then highlights the key approaches to be used in USAID’s global health response to address these priorities. http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/home/Publications/docs/gh_framework2012.pdf

The Case For Investment 2011-2014

Investing in education is the single most effective means of reducing poverty. Overall, the global education story has been positive in the past decade, with the number of primary school-aged children not attending school decreasing from over 100 million to 67 million. The Global Partnership for Education is the only global partnership devoted to getting all children everywhere into school for a quality education. An investment in the GPE Fund of US$2.5 billion from 2011 to 2014 will allow significant progress in education access and quality to be made. This level of progress in education would have major secondary impacts on child and maternal health, reducing the number of children who die annually of preventable causes by 350,000 and saving the lives of 14,000 mothers each year.
http://www.globalpartnership.org/media/docs/publications/web-BusinessCase-GPE.pdf

Global Financial Crisis: The Beginning of the End of the “Development” Agenda?

In this paper, Nancy Birdsall discusses two themes. The first is the pre-crisis subtle shift in the prevailing model of capitalism in developing countries—away from orthodoxy or so-called market fundamentalism—that the crisis is likely to reinforce. The second theme is better framed as a question than a prediction: will the financial crisis, which is likely to be remembered as marking the end of Western economic dominance, be a trigger for a new twenty-first-century approach to collective action on global problems?
http://www.cgdev.org/files/1426133_file_Birdsall_financial_crisis_FINAL.pdf

Africa wide water, sanitation and hygiene technology review

The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Technologies (WASHTech) is a three-year action research initiative that aims to facilitate cost-effective investments in technologies for sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH). The aim of the review is to understand how technologies have been developed, how they were introduced, whether they have gone to scale and to start to explore the reasons why they were successful or not. The review is focused on technologies used in Africa in the water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector for long-term development. http://media.greennexxus.com/wasrag/Articles_of_Interest/Sanitation/General/Washtech_1201.pdf

GLOBAL STATE OF MOTHERS 2012

Niger is the worst place on the planet to be a mum, new research published by Save the Children has found.The West African country, one of the world’s poorest, has replaced Afghanistan at the bottom of the children’s charity’s annual State of the World’s Mothers ranking. The index compares conditions for mothers in 165 countries around the globe, looking at factors such as mother's health, education and economic status, as well as critical child indicators such as health and nutrition.

The report reveals the impact nutrition has on the wellbeing of mothers and children. Of the ten countries at the bottom of the index, seven are currently facing a food crisis -with Niger at the epicenter of a developing emergency that is threatening the lives of up to a million children.
http://www.savethechildren.org/atf/cf/%7B9def2ebe-10ae-432c-9bd0-df91d2eba74a%7D/STATE-OF-THE-WORLDS-MOTHERS-REPORT-2012-FINAL.PDF

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THE POLICEMAN PROFESSIONALLY STRANGLED TURINAWES NIPPLE!

Folks,

I see Mr Semuwemba,  recommending that the police officer who 'touched' Turinawe's breast should be sacked in the link below. 

 

http://semuwemba.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/ingrid-tevez-torres-and-suarez-all-score-a-hatrick-this-month-for-their-respective-teams/#comment-5423

 I say somewhere that Turinawe's breasts are too large to 'touch'.  They are size 56K...I think and to 'touch' those you need 8 average hands.  

In the video, the police officer is clearly doing what they are trained to do professionally: to elicit maximum pain by hitting or strangling a pressure point and nipples are a known pressure point for anybody schooled in the science of violence.  Squeeze one of them, and a female will drop her baby, let alone letting go of the steering wheel which Turinawe was clutching on...

So, tomorrow, when a professional police officer who knows about pressure points squeezes the armpit of another female demonstrator to restrain and arrest her, some idiots will be all over town exposing their bushy armpits.  that is where our idea of opposition is headed.

If Nabakooba kicks Besigye in the groin, a pressure point, Mugumya will go to CPS with his exposed groin to demonstrate, that the make grain is private?

Here are other pressure points, Turinawe's nipples inclusive.....

  

Lance Corporal (Rtd) Patrick Otto

JP Mbabazi's apology is 'unco-ordinated troop movement'.

 They all need to know that in the kind of fracases that the demagogues of FDC are engineering, many little things can happen, many unfamiliar right things will happen etc.  What if the police persons had had ended up in Grinding's eye socket?  It is indeed also a pressure point!

Amama Mbabazi needs to apologize to the police.

Our trouble now is that the ordinary Ugandan is currently being taken for a ride by two deluded Bakiga who are playthings of deluded Central region neotraditionalism.  Yes!  The Buganda neotraditionalists have never had it better!  Instead of past indigenous demagogues like Augustine Kamya, that cobbler of Katwe of the 1950s, now they have rented the grandchildren of Nyabingi to disguise their intentions!  Who else do you see milling around Besigye and Turinawe apart from the Young Turks of Buganda neotraditionalism: Sempala, Nganda, Lukwago, Kikungwe etc.  Have you ever seen Kazora there, Wafula etc?

The Buganda neotraditionalists have seen that they cannot extract much in consessions from YK Museveni so now they must embarass him out of power.  That talk of corruption, unemployment, bad roads is nonsensical because whoever would have been in power, those realities would be there staring us in our faces, and they will indeed continue to do so for many years to come.  Talk of corruption is even more nonsensical because it confuses the increased avenues of exposing corruption with the increased incidence of corruption.  There has never been any direct linkage between improved epidemiological monitoring of disease and increased incidence unless we want to declare ourselves thorough idiots!

Any how, what is it in the demagoguery of Turinawe that will make Uganda grow out of deeply ingrained corruption?  Is it NRM that mounted a guard of honour for Sebagala when he was returning from USA to serve a jail sentence for being a petty crook?  Is it NRM/Museveni who nominated Sebagala to be a presidential candidate after his stint as a jail bird?  Is it Museveni who elected Sebagala as a mayor?  Is it NRM that lines the streets to greet Bad Black when she is coming out of jail, that reprehensible crook?  When notables from our tribes are locked up because of corruption, why do we assail State House by the coach load to petition the president to release the crooks from prison?  It is because we are collectively corrupt.  So, all that talk about corruption this, and corruption that is essentially corrupt talk in its own right!

In the same vein, because our minds are excessively sexualised, when we see anybody touching anyone, we view everything through the sex lens.  Many here think that if they were to touch Turinawe's breast, they would do it with a sexual intent.  So whoever else touches Turinawe's breast, is doing so with a similar intent.  What rrrrrrrrrrrrubish!  Our eyes are jaundiced, so whatever we see is yellow!  We are crooked. 

If I were to rule you, I would rule you for 50 years with a bonus.  And I am only a mere Corporal! 

 

You have spent all the 25 or so years from 1986 fighting the government.  Now when you are dissuaded from fighting, or defeated or pacified, you turn around and say there are no drugs, no roads, no jobs etc.

Do you, in your great minds imagine that the brass shells and gun powder that were being scattered all around were by some magic turning into penicillin, quinine, colas, and blackboards?  I really need an answer here!

do you think that the resources that were going into the activities associated with snuffing out all those outfit below would also still be available to put in place infrastructure.  No roads, no this no that, why should they be there when all these years you have just been fighting each other, and attempting to reject each other? 

Look at all that.  Those were you Ugandans fighting each other.  Why do you eat your cake and also want to have it?

I see you saying that NRM has destroyed the country.  Is neutralising all those outfits what it takes to destroy the country?  

1.    Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA)

2.    Uganda People’s Democratic Army (UPDM/A)

3.    Uganda People’s Army (UPA)

4.    Ruwenzururu  Kingdom Freedom Movement

5.    Uganda Freedom Movement (UFM)

6.    Uganda Mujahdeen Movement (UMM)

7.    Ninth October Movement/Army (NOM/A)

8.    Allied Democratic Front/Force (ADF)

9.    Force Obote Back Army (FOBA),

10.           Federal Democratic Movement (Fedemo)

11.           West Nile Bank Front (WNBF) I &II

12.           Uganda National Democratic Alliance/Kirimuttu (UNDA)

13.           National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU)

14.           Uganda National Rescue Front (UNRF) I &II

15.           Holy Spirit Movement/Holy Spirit Mobile Forces (HSM) I

16.            Holy Spirit Movement/Holy Spirit Mobile Forces (HSM) II

17.           Citizen Army for Multiparty Politics (CAMP),

18.           Action Restore Justice (ARJ)

19.           Former Uganda National Army (FUNA),

20.           Anti-Referendum Army (ARA),

21.           Peoples’ Redundant Army (PRA)

22.           Uganda Salvation Force/Army (USF/A)

23.           Lord’s Army

24.           Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)

 

 

 

  

 

Lance Corporal (Rtd) Patrick Otto